Illini Football Centennial Celebration Hits The Road

June 22, 1990|By Robert Markus.

Illinois` football centennial celebration kicks off June 29 with a traveling display of Illini memorabilia and the simultaneous release of Tribune writer Linda Young`s book: ``Hail to the Orange and Blue! 100 Years of Illinois Football Tradition.``

Among the items in the traveling display will be an unused ticket to the 1924 dedication game at Memorial Stadium, the game that made Red Grange famous. There also are rare photos of Grange, Bob Zuppke and George Huff.

The tour opens in Champaign and hits Chicago July 3 with a stop at the State of Illinois Center. The only other Chicago area stop is July 7 at the Lincoln Mall in Matteson.